I picked up a radio station once on one of those obscure channels that wasn't registered to any radio stations. It just seemed to be random sentences and/or words, nothing all day but random sentences and words. Listened to it for a while, got bored and moved on.
I think this is to keep all those 'conspiratists' busy decrypting random data instead of real transfers going on on other channels.
My wish list/predictions: iTV, new Apple Newton (iNewton?), smaller iPod's, bigger screens on everything, cheaper LCD panels, OS X Leopard, cheaper Mac Mini's (maybe the iTV will have something cool for a good price), Airport firmware that enables the network port and allows for wireless bridging. Screw any iPhone, I want something like the Newton.
Still, you had already 42 leaders, one old dude dies and that is news? There are more leaders in the world, from big country's (especially leaders that aren't leading anymore), you don't see that they are dying/dead here. I doubt that Saddam's hanging will be on/.
Now if they get killed or die and they had a big technological influence or something technological suppositively killed them, then it would be/.-worthy news.
You have ONLY 60000 query's per day? That's on a 12 hour working cycle about 1,3 per second. ANY RDBMS should be able to handle this on today's hardware (even on yesterday's hardware).
If you're looking for data safety and recovery etc. you better make sure you use decent table types and optimized queries and that your programmers use database-side transactions (Yes, I've seen programmers implement the transactions on the program side, not a good idea btw) with whatever database system they are using. Check out http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/2235521 for the different table types and the pro/con's about them on MySQL.
Also make sure your hardware is decent. Especially with database systems, you do not want to have downtime because you saved $200 on the hardware. Use RAID5 or even RAID6 if possible, look at optimizing your server with the documentation from the merchant (MySQL AB has some good documentation). Another issue I recently walked into: don't use cheap SuperMicro hardware enclosures you built yourself. I got a hard drive stuck the other day because a power cable slipped under while sliding it in and had to bring the whole machine down to 'operate' it. I have good experience with Apple's hardware (the server hardware), it falls apart quit easily and is easy to maintain without downtime (up to replacing fans and power), you do not have to keep Mac OS X however if you don't want to.
MySQL is definitely an industry-grade solution, especially their latest versions. And they're relatively cheap (free if you want) and have a very good commercial support plan and staff (if you go not-so-free).
What exactly does this have to do with Politics for Nerds or News for Nerds or anything technological? Was it a computer that killed him? Was it the trucks on the intarweb? Was his life lengthend by a magical ward from WoW?
Nope, the cause is stupid speed limits and speed traps. I live in the city now and at 4pm-5pm, everybody wants to get out of their companies/schools parking lot. It rolls pretty good throughout my street (35 zone) when everybody's going 55. Everybody gets out and gets home pretty fast, no traffic jams. If a cop is standing there, doing speed checks, 1) everybody slows down and since everybody slows down they 2) stay longer in the city 'center' and thus 3) more cars in the same place make sure that traffic jams up.
as an IT consultant and I helped building 2 data centers so far, third coming up. How much are you filling the data centers and at what rate. If you have lots and lots of servers and fill up about a half rack each month, it's usually cheaper to do it in-house.
Calculate what you pay up-front and the general cost of maintaining. With a decent crew, you should be able to manage the data center with 3-5 people. Also calculate in the cost of the ground, power, cooling,... and of course insurances and see what a co-locator would charge you. You know that co-locators do charge you the costs and a percentage of profit and their prices can change anytime and once your locked into a datacenter, you usually can't get out for cheap.
I got a Buick Park Avenue that does about 30 mpg on the highway with a trunk stuffed (moved recently) and going 75mph. In the city (stop-and-go, fast accel.) and going 100mph I get about 20mpg. Just take care of your car and you'll have less mileage. I could get even better mileage if I would hold back my foot but I don't really care that much.
Yes, you have to clean your airfilter monthly, replace yearly and yes I change my oil almost every other month and yes, when the check engine light comes on, you have to repair those sensors. My parents have a much smaller car, bought it so they would save on gas, but don't bother to change oil regularly nor do they spend the money on the 'check engine' so their car gets less mileage than mine. The Buick is a pita about changing anything in the engine from oil to washer fluid, everything appears on the dashboard and most 'necessary' things like oil, makes noise once in a while to get your attention.
Hybrids is imho another pitch by car makers to make people buy new cars so they get that feeling that "they did something good for (nature/children)". The creation of the components and afterwards discarding as well as the energy necessary to 'charge' the car is not mentioned nor is it mentioned that batteries (even Lithium) die after 3-some years, especially in such working environments (deep cycles, high currents) and thus need replaced while the old ones get discarded. Until they use a shit-load of gold-plated capacitors (and those are also somewhat a burden on the environment) instead of lead-based or even lithium-based batteries, hybrids will have little to no value towards the environment and even then I will doubt that the creation of the energy is environment-friendly.
A lot of/.-ers complaining that Amiga is vaporware. Not yet. Amiga is still used in existing installations especially in the music/theater world for DMX/MIDI and other computer-controlled light- and music sets as well as real-time effects on lights, video and music. The fact that most controllers are hardware based and don't need any processing by the CPU is a great thing as compared to the latency even top-end video- and soundcards on PCI produce. It has a great open-source fan base and it is (still) stable as hell in all the applications I've seen and especially in real-time performances not really a task for (Windows) PC computers.
There are bunches of olden computers out there that still work and have some neat proprietary hardware that were forerunners of the current high-speed interfaces or some of the oddballs that everyone asks why they ever were made. Get a 486 with a VESA local bus on, IBM PS/2 with MCA or a PS/2 with nothing else but an 8-bit ISA slot. If you're looking for older stuff, there's the classic TRS-80. I used to have a 50-pound 'portable' computer (286 with a fold-up keyboard and a crt screen complete with carrying handle) and a 10-pound portable computer (a 386 with a 6" B&W LCD). I recently discarded 2MB of RAM for a 286. Basically a 16-bit ISA card (larger than the latest GeForce or ATI) filled with 8-pin chips. Even older: CELLATRON 8205, a desktop computer that included the desktop.
I don't know if you ever saw those tv-shows: cops... mere possession of a "controlled substance" can get you in jail. Even having a prescribed medicine without the actual prescription (who keeps their doctor's prescription in their pocket/handbag/car anyway) can land you in jail. Heck, I got eyedrops (a steroid-type) prescribed, the cops stopped me for something else (speeding, as usual) and they asked me if I had the prescription, luckily I just came from the pharmacy, so I still had a copy with me.
I wish you would be allowed to sleep completely flat (as in a bunk like a ship would be good enough for me). Would be great for trans-atlantic flights. I fly quite frequently and changing hours, planes and means of transport make me kinda tired. The average flight is 18 hours, with delays 24 hours of eyes-wide-open travelling fun.
I also wish they would allow you to have sex on an airplane. Might not be for all Slashdotters, but as a frequent member of the High Mile Club, a flight attendant knocking isn't always the best option. And for the people that are too shy to hide in the bathrooms or think it's too cramped: Air France has some nice blankets, or you can bring your own, which you could get frisky under. Some tips: take the back seats or bathrooms and if you want some privacy: take a late night trip (leaving in the late PM's or early AM's) from Paris -> New York, you should get enough uninteruppted space and time after take-off.
I live on my own and don't have a washing machine/dryer at the moment. I don't think I'm going to buy one. Since I'm single (this is Slashdot), I have a full load at most, once a week, usually it's every 2 weeks. So let's say it is every week. That would make 52 times a year. A new washer: $250, a new dryer $250 (and those are the cheap ones that waste a lot of electricity). So in the first year that would cost me close to $10 every time I do a load of laundry without counting the electricity and water (another $10/month). A laundromat costs me at max. $5 every time (I live near a University, so a lot of cheap places to do laundry). If I could keep the washer/dryer more than 2 years, it would start saving me money. But what if it doesn't last that long (some break down after a year) or what if a leak develops (I'm renting, my computers are on the same floor, insurance has a $1000 deductible)? And in the mean time, I could also use the laundromat in hotels when I have to travel for work or pleasure and put it in as an expense as well as use the lump sum and buy something else.
Google and Yahoo conduct business in China and get slapped in the face over it in general media. Ok, I don't condone Yahoo giving away information on Chinese dissidents, but Google just blocked parts of access according to Chinese law. Now Microsoft's & Adobe's marionette: the BSA and Sony/BMG/Warner's marionette: MPAA go sign a treaty that they give information on Chinese dissidents so that Chinese hitman can go whack them and nobody gives a shit?
NTFS is to HPFS what FAT32 to FAT12 is... a stolen, outdated technology with an extension and some proprietary stuff. The implementation is limited to some 16TB (ask any (enterprise) Exchange Admin why that matters), it isn't a transactional filesystem, it misses POSIX-compliance and half of the implementation is closed to anyone but Microsoft.
The primary cause Microsoft came this big is because of stupid managers in the beginning of the.com boom seeing fancy screens and nice frontends on technically bad solutions in Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups - you know the one with PostOffice (before Exchange)) and Windows 95 as well as some dumb moves on the side of IBM and others that sold their software for peanuts to Bill Gates and co.
Back then and in the following years, Microsoft start doing certain practices like stealing technology, code and designs from other companies which they can get away with because judges and offices don't have a single idea what a personal computer looks like, let alone see any valuable future for that or the intarweb. By the time most cases got handled (later '90's), they had bought out most of the companies they stole the products off.
Once they had the mainstream market in hand, they started breaking other vendor's products by design (like breaking WordPerfect when you installed Word - 1997) or closing up whatever they had 'developed' and only give access if you paid big sums for it (DirectX which gives direct access to hardware through the kernel comes to mind) and they also broke most of the competitors (like DOS4GW in Windows 98) under the disnomer of 'protection'. The only way you could use your own hardware was if you were a geek and replaced HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE with the versions from DR-DOS - for some or another reason this also sped up Windows a lot - and tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys so that you could use most of the 640k that was reserved for the beginning portion (I came as close as 605k).
Currently, they use their big humping weight to coerce companies, clients and vendors to do whatever they want. I have been working in one of the largest hosting companies that mainly do Windows. If we were to keep our status as Microsoft Gold Partner, the total of our servers had to have a majority of Windows running and our sales people had to promote Windows primarily and keep people from having Linux servers. Unless a client really stood by it's decision to have Linux, were they getting that. That way we also got the weirdest combinations and most of the clients had Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows - a hell. We also had to have >60% of our staff trained as Windows Certified Whatever, all sales persons had to be Windows Certified Professionals and I almost got fired two times over recommending a Linux server (as a technical observation towards the customers' needs - Apache and MySQL) over a planned Windows server, the director of Microsoft Europe himselve demanded my resignation, I got sick and quit a few months later. Since I am not under a NDA, I can tell you all this, all of it is true, but since Microsoft has NDA's and clauses in their contracts that if someone sues, they lose their Partner status and have to pay x-amount of $, few can actually come out but I've seen it in a lot of Microsoft 'Partner' companies.
A Klingon warrior would never allow themselves to get captured. So either all Klingons would be dead or there would be a continuous war which doesn't really sound much like a 'occupation' then to me, but rather an attempt to wipe out all Klingon's.
Why don't they just use TCP/IP fingerprinting as available in security packages like say NMap? It has been around for years (I've used it since NT 3) and works perfectly for what you want. So if the patch level changes the TCP/IP fingerprint or it embeds it in the DHCP request, we don't have to mess around with special software written to only run for Windows and screw the users/servers having Mac, Linux and other OS'es.
a totalitarian state that disappears its own citizens into brutal torture chambers at the merest suspicion of dissident thoughts ==> Check (Gitmo, American & Brittish concentration camps) apparently launches missiles at its own cities to keep its citizens in check ==> Check (9/11, Cold War) and is trying to brainwash its entire population into being literally incapable of understanding the very concept of freedom ==> Check (your very comment)
Seriously, I haven't seen many VBA scripts in Word or Excel documents. They might have existed a few years ago, but now we have MySQL, PostgreSQL for free or Sybase, Oracle and a slew of other databases that can contain more data better and for automation we have PHP, Java, Python and Ruby. I have seen once or twice a VBA script in an Excel document and the fact that it was utterly bad scripting made me aware that you don't let bookkeepers create scripts but you should have real programmers take care of that.
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Michael Jackson was black and chose to be caucasian. Using genetic modification, I think you should be able to choose pigmentation of your skin.
I picked up a radio station once on one of those obscure channels that wasn't registered to any radio stations. It just seemed to be random sentences and/or words, nothing all day but random sentences and words. Listened to it for a while, got bored and moved on.
I think this is to keep all those 'conspiratists' busy decrypting random data instead of real transfers going on on other channels.
My wish list/predictions: iTV, new Apple Newton (iNewton?), smaller iPod's, bigger screens on everything, cheaper LCD panels, OS X Leopard, cheaper Mac Mini's (maybe the iTV will have something cool for a good price), Airport firmware that enables the network port and allows for wireless bridging. Screw any iPhone, I want something like the Newton.
I opened all articles of today in a tab and I saw: Free Guide to Naked and I was hoping for more interesting subjects
Still, you had already 42 leaders, one old dude dies and that is news? There are more leaders in the world, from big country's (especially leaders that aren't leading anymore), you don't see that they are dying/dead here. I doubt that Saddam's hanging will be on /.
/.-worthy news.
Now if they get killed or die and they had a big technological influence or something technological suppositively killed them, then it would be
You have ONLY 60000 query's per day? That's on a 12 hour working cycle about 1,3 per second. ANY RDBMS should be able to handle this on today's hardware (even on yesterday's hardware).
If you're looking for data safety and recovery etc. you better make sure you use decent table types and optimized queries and that your programmers use database-side transactions (Yes, I've seen programmers implement the transactions on the program side, not a good idea btw) with whatever database system they are using. Check out http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/2235521 for the different table types and the pro/con's about them on MySQL.
Also make sure your hardware is decent. Especially with database systems, you do not want to have downtime because you saved $200 on the hardware. Use RAID5 or even RAID6 if possible, look at optimizing your server with the documentation from the merchant (MySQL AB has some good documentation). Another issue I recently walked into: don't use cheap SuperMicro hardware enclosures you built yourself. I got a hard drive stuck the other day because a power cable slipped under while sliding it in and had to bring the whole machine down to 'operate' it. I have good experience with Apple's hardware (the server hardware), it falls apart quit easily and is easy to maintain without downtime (up to replacing fans and power), you do not have to keep Mac OS X however if you don't want to.
MySQL is definitely an industry-grade solution, especially their latest versions. And they're relatively cheap (free if you want) and have a very good commercial support plan and staff (if you go not-so-free).
What exactly does this have to do with Politics for Nerds or News for Nerds or anything technological? Was it a computer that killed him? Was it the trucks on the intarweb? Was his life lengthend by a magical ward from WoW?
In Soviet America Quake 4 cripples Internet 2
Nope, the cause is stupid speed limits and speed traps. I live in the city now and at 4pm-5pm, everybody wants to get out of their companies/schools parking lot. It rolls pretty good throughout my street (35 zone) when everybody's going 55. Everybody gets out and gets home pretty fast, no traffic jams. If a cop is standing there, doing speed checks, 1) everybody slows down and since everybody slows down they 2) stay longer in the city 'center' and thus 3) more cars in the same place make sure that traffic jams up.
as an IT consultant and I helped building 2 data centers so far, third coming up. How much are you filling the data centers and at what rate. If you have lots and lots of servers and fill up about a half rack each month, it's usually cheaper to do it in-house.
... and of course insurances and see what a co-locator would charge you. You know that co-locators do charge you the costs and a percentage of profit and their prices can change anytime and once your locked into a datacenter, you usually can't get out for cheap.
Calculate what you pay up-front and the general cost of maintaining. With a decent crew, you should be able to manage the data center with 3-5 people. Also calculate in the cost of the ground, power, cooling,
I got a Buick Park Avenue that does about 30 mpg on the highway with a trunk stuffed (moved recently) and going 75mph. In the city (stop-and-go, fast accel.) and going 100mph I get about 20mpg. Just take care of your car and you'll have less mileage. I could get even better mileage if I would hold back my foot but I don't really care that much.
Yes, you have to clean your airfilter monthly, replace yearly and yes I change my oil almost every other month and yes, when the check engine light comes on, you have to repair those sensors. My parents have a much smaller car, bought it so they would save on gas, but don't bother to change oil regularly nor do they spend the money on the 'check engine' so their car gets less mileage than mine. The Buick is a pita about changing anything in the engine from oil to washer fluid, everything appears on the dashboard and most 'necessary' things like oil, makes noise once in a while to get your attention.
Hybrids is imho another pitch by car makers to make people buy new cars so they get that feeling that "they did something good for (nature/children)". The creation of the components and afterwards discarding as well as the energy necessary to 'charge' the car is not mentioned nor is it mentioned that batteries (even Lithium) die after 3-some years, especially in such working environments (deep cycles, high currents) and thus need replaced while the old ones get discarded. Until they use a shit-load of gold-plated capacitors (and those are also somewhat a burden on the environment) instead of lead-based or even lithium-based batteries, hybrids will have little to no value towards the environment and even then I will doubt that the creation of the energy is environment-friendly.
A lot of /.-ers complaining that Amiga is vaporware. Not yet. Amiga is still used in existing installations especially in the music/theater world for DMX/MIDI and other computer-controlled light- and music sets as well as real-time effects on lights, video and music. The fact that most controllers are hardware based and don't need any processing by the CPU is a great thing as compared to the latency even top-end video- and soundcards on PCI produce. It has a great open-source fan base and it is (still) stable as hell in all the applications I've seen and especially in real-time performances not really a task for (Windows) PC computers.
There are bunches of olden computers out there that still work and have some neat proprietary hardware that were forerunners of the current high-speed interfaces or some of the oddballs that everyone asks why they ever were made. Get a 486 with a VESA local bus on, IBM PS/2 with MCA or a PS/2 with nothing else but an 8-bit ISA slot. If you're looking for older stuff, there's the classic TRS-80. I used to have a 50-pound 'portable' computer (286 with a fold-up keyboard and a crt screen complete with carrying handle) and a 10-pound portable computer (a 386 with a 6" B&W LCD). I recently discarded 2MB of RAM for a 286. Basically a 16-bit ISA card (larger than the latest GeForce or ATI) filled with 8-pin chips. Even older: CELLATRON 8205, a desktop computer that included the desktop.
I don't know if you ever saw those tv-shows: cops... mere possession of a "controlled substance" can get you in jail. Even having a prescribed medicine without the actual prescription (who keeps their doctor's prescription in their pocket/handbag/car anyway) can land you in jail. Heck, I got eyedrops (a steroid-type) prescribed, the cops stopped me for something else (speeding, as usual) and they asked me if I had the prescription, luckily I just came from the pharmacy, so I still had a copy with me.
I wish you would be allowed to sleep completely flat (as in a bunk like a ship would be good enough for me). Would be great for trans-atlantic flights. I fly quite frequently and changing hours, planes and means of transport make me kinda tired. The average flight is 18 hours, with delays 24 hours of eyes-wide-open travelling fun.
I also wish they would allow you to have sex on an airplane. Might not be for all Slashdotters, but as a frequent member of the High Mile Club, a flight attendant knocking isn't always the best option. And for the people that are too shy to hide in the bathrooms or think it's too cramped: Air France has some nice blankets, or you can bring your own, which you could get frisky under. Some tips: take the back seats or bathrooms and if you want some privacy: take a late night trip (leaving in the late PM's or early AM's) from Paris -> New York, you should get enough uninteruppted space and time after take-off.
I live on my own and don't have a washing machine/dryer at the moment. I don't think I'm going to buy one. Since I'm single (this is Slashdot), I have a full load at most, once a week, usually it's every 2 weeks. So let's say it is every week. That would make 52 times a year. A new washer: $250, a new dryer $250 (and those are the cheap ones that waste a lot of electricity). So in the first year that would cost me close to $10 every time I do a load of laundry without counting the electricity and water (another $10/month). A laundromat costs me at max. $5 every time (I live near a University, so a lot of cheap places to do laundry). If I could keep the washer/dryer more than 2 years, it would start saving me money. But what if it doesn't last that long (some break down after a year) or what if a leak develops (I'm renting, my computers are on the same floor, insurance has a $1000 deductible)? And in the mean time, I could also use the laundromat in hotels when I have to travel for work or pleasure and put it in as an expense as well as use the lump sum and buy something else.
Google and Yahoo conduct business in China and get slapped in the face over it in general media. Ok, I don't condone Yahoo giving away information on Chinese dissidents, but Google just blocked parts of access according to Chinese law. Now Microsoft's & Adobe's marionette: the BSA and Sony/BMG/Warner's marionette: MPAA go sign a treaty that they give information on Chinese dissidents so that Chinese hitman can go whack them and nobody gives a shit?
NTFS is to HPFS what FAT32 to FAT12 is... a stolen, outdated technology with an extension and some proprietary stuff. The implementation is limited to some 16TB (ask any (enterprise) Exchange Admin why that matters), it isn't a transactional filesystem, it misses POSIX-compliance and half of the implementation is closed to anyone but Microsoft.
The columnist trying to prove that Vista is not a rip-off from Mac OS X - I wonder who paid him to have his opinion...
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The primary cause Microsoft came this big is because of stupid managers in the beginning of the .com boom seeing fancy screens and nice frontends on technically bad solutions in Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups - you know the one with PostOffice (before Exchange)) and Windows 95 as well as some dumb moves on the side of IBM and others that sold their software for peanuts to Bill Gates and co.
Back then and in the following years, Microsoft start doing certain practices like stealing technology, code and designs from other companies which they can get away with because judges and offices don't have a single idea what a personal computer looks like, let alone see any valuable future for that or the intarweb. By the time most cases got handled (later '90's), they had bought out most of the companies they stole the products off.
Once they had the mainstream market in hand, they started breaking other vendor's products by design (like breaking WordPerfect when you installed Word - 1997) or closing up whatever they had 'developed' and only give access if you paid big sums for it (DirectX which gives direct access to hardware through the kernel comes to mind) and they also broke most of the competitors (like DOS4GW in Windows 98) under the disnomer of 'protection'. The only way you could use your own hardware was if you were a geek and replaced HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE with the versions from DR-DOS - for some or another reason this also sped up Windows a lot - and tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys so that you could use most of the 640k that was reserved for the beginning portion (I came as close as 605k).
Currently, they use their big humping weight to coerce companies, clients and vendors to do whatever they want. I have been working in one of the largest hosting companies that mainly do Windows. If we were to keep our status as Microsoft Gold Partner, the total of our servers had to have a majority of Windows running and our sales people had to promote Windows primarily and keep people from having Linux servers. Unless a client really stood by it's decision to have Linux, were they getting that. That way we also got the weirdest combinations and most of the clients had Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows - a hell. We also had to have >60% of our staff trained as Windows Certified Whatever, all sales persons had to be Windows Certified Professionals and I almost got fired two times over recommending a Linux server (as a technical observation towards the customers' needs - Apache and MySQL) over a planned Windows server, the director of Microsoft Europe himselve demanded my resignation, I got sick and quit a few months later. Since I am not under a NDA, I can tell you all this, all of it is true, but since Microsoft has NDA's and clauses in their contracts that if someone sues, they lose their Partner status and have to pay x-amount of $, few can actually come out but I've seen it in a lot of Microsoft 'Partner' companies.
A Klingon warrior would never allow themselves to get captured. So either all Klingons would be dead or there would be a continuous war which doesn't really sound much like a 'occupation' then to me, but rather an attempt to wipe out all Klingon's.
Why don't they just use TCP/IP fingerprinting as available in security packages like say NMap? It has been around for years (I've used it since NT 3) and works perfectly for what you want. So if the patch level changes the TCP/IP fingerprint or it embeds it in the DHCP request, we don't have to mess around with special software written to only run for Windows and screw the users/servers having Mac, Linux and other OS'es.
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!
Now we'll just have to wait for those Vogon's
a totalitarian state that disappears its own citizens into brutal torture chambers at the merest suspicion of dissident thoughts ==> Check (Gitmo, American & Brittish concentration camps)
apparently launches missiles at its own cities to keep its citizens in check ==> Check (9/11, Cold War)
and is trying to brainwash its entire population into being literally incapable of understanding the very concept of freedom ==> Check (your very comment)
Seriously, I haven't seen many VBA scripts in Word or Excel documents. They might have existed a few years ago, but now we have MySQL, PostgreSQL for free or Sybase, Oracle and a slew of other databases that can contain more data better and for automation we have PHP, Java, Python and Ruby. I have seen once or twice a VBA script in an Excel document and the fact that it was utterly bad scripting made me aware that you don't let bookkeepers create scripts but you should have real programmers take care of that.